One of today’s most ubiquitous and essential tools on campus is the
learning management system (LMS). Since 2008, Instructure has provided
Canvas, the modern and extensible LMS, to more than 400 institutions.
Instructure has partnered with Internet2 to develop a custom and unique
offering, NET+ Canvas, which provides the higher education community
with Canvas and additional features to meet the needs of Internet2
member institutions.

Canvas is a rapidly growing, cloud-based service that
helps improve student and faculty collaboration by integrating Web
services such as Google Drive, Calendar, SMS, social media and RSS. Over
the past 18 months, more than 400 educational institutions with about 3
million cumulative users have adopted Canvas. These institutions
include Auburn University, Brown University, University of Central
Florida, University of Maryland, University of Washington and the Utah
Education Network.

Canvas is an easy-to-use learning platform
designed to carry teaching and learning into the future. Like every LMS
it provides the basic feature set you would expect: assignments,
quizzes, discussion groups, grading, and course content tools. Canvas
excels at delivering powerful functionality, providing a better user
experience in a simple, intuitive way, and implementing the common LMS
feature set in a superior way. Additionally, NET+ Canvas adds custom and
unique features for Internet2 higher education members, including
current or planned integrations with other Internet2 NET+ services and
with the Internet2 research and education network infrastructure. Its
future development will be guided by an Advisory Board consisting of
representatives from the universities that developed the service with
Internet2 and Instructure.

NET+ Canvas was designed in collaboration with educators and has been proven to meet the needs of the Internet2 community. Internet2 NET+ Canvas offers a customized evaluation and ramping process and streamlined contracting with a common click-through agreement developed and vetted by numerous university counsels and Internet2. The Internet2-Instructure NET+ partnership enables institutions to move rapidly through the LMS evaluation process, allowing for faster adoption of a superior learning platform.

Native Cloud

Canvas was designed for the cloud and that means no versions, no upgrades, no migrations and no inconvenient down times. Canvas will always be up-to-date with the latest features, bug fixes and security enhancements. The Internet2 NET+ offering includes a specialized test instance and custom pilot and trial terms.

Managed Hosting

Eliminates the time and expense of procuring, setting up, configuring and maintaining your own servers.

Scalability

Provisions resources automatically for superior performance during peak usage. A common complaint with competing systems is they go down when usage spikes during finals or other high demand periods. With automated peak load management, additional server capacity is added automatically as system activity increases.

Service Availability and Reliability

Canvas comes with a 99.9% uptime guarantee, which is contractually agreed upon between Instructure and Internet2 in the Service Level Agreement. In addition, Canvas provides data protection through data replication, backup/restore and disaster recovery procedures at no additional charge.

Hands-free Updates

Provides the latest security patches, fixes and third-part compatibility updates in real-time with no administrative burden.

Ease of Use

A familiar, intuitive interface means most users already have the skills they need to navigate, learn and use Canvas. The NET+ Canvas offering includes a custom repository of end user oriented documentation and training material developed by the participating universities, Instructure and Internet2.

Students and faculty have convenient access to the Canvas system, using their standard campus login credentials. Canvas supports Single Sign-On (SSO) through several types of federated identity management systems, including SAML2/Shibboleth, LDAP, CAS and Active Directory. Instructure is a member of InCommon and is a Service Provider.

Integration

Allows institutions and instructors to use the web tools that they want. Integration of Google Drive, a wiki, or many other third-party systems is easy using the Canvas open API, LTI, RSS or other integration methods. Beyond giving institutions the flexibility to develop their own integrations, NET+ Canvas will include current or planned integrations with other Internet2 NET+ services and the Internet2 research and education network.

Flexible Pedagogy

Canvas provides all the features you expect from a modern learning platform to support a variety of teaching styles.

Integrated Multimedia

Makes using multimedia easy by allowing you to access and insert audio, video, text, images and more during all learning contact point. Even directly recorded video or audio to leave interactive student feedback.

Analytics

Learning Outcomes

Align Learning Outcomes with rubrics for institution-wide initiatives such as accreditation.

SpeedGrader

Breeze through grading in half the time while providing rich feedback on learning. With SpeedGrader for iPad (provided at no additional cost) even grading on the go is easy.

Accessibility, Compliance, and FERPA

Canvas is fully compliant with FERPA and with Sections 504 and 508 Accessibility Standards, including support for screen readers such as JAWS and NVDA. Canvas adheres to the latest ARIA specifications, avoids problematic content (like Flash) and even converts math equations to MathML automatically

Pricing for NET+ Canvas is based on a one-time implementation fee and on annual subscription fees calculated by multiplying an institution's student FTE count by a tiered annual per-FTE subscription fee. Universities interested in subscribing should provide a reference to any published (IPEDS, university website, etc.) student FTE count to justify their tier and to calculate the price.

Ready to get started using NET+ Canvas learning management platform for your institution? You’ll need to get some information together, as outlined in the following steps, to help us prepare a Pricing Proposal.

Determine your eligibility

Institutions need to be Internet2 members receive special features and pricing.

For more information on becoming an Internet2 member, see "Internet2 Membership."

Determine your pricing tier

The annual pricing of the Internet2 NET+ Canvas service is based on annual subscription fees calculated by multiplying an institution's FTE count by a tiered annual per-FTE subscription fee. The institutions FTE count determines the tier used for pricing

TIER

1

2

3

4

5

6

FTE Count

Up to
2,499

2,500-
6,999

7,000-
13,999

14,000-
23,999

24,000-
99,999

100,000+

You'll need to select your organization's tier on the form. See the Canvas Fees Table for more information.

Application submitter – The submitter of the application form will receive the submission confirmation email and will be the point of contact for confirmation of details or clarification.

General information contacts – The general information contacts are the LMS Administrators and a few faculty members who are very involved with Canvas across the institution.

Status information contacts – The Status information contacts are the individuals who will receive correspondence from Instructure about updates, outages, and other issues related to customer support and the helpdesk.

Administrative contact – The administrative contact is the individual with the power to authorize the service contract and fees.

Billing contact – The billing contact is the individual to whom invoices should be addressed.

Primary legal contact (Campus Address for Legal Notices) – The primary legal contact is the individual who serves as contact point and/or legal resource, to whom legal inquiries and concerns should be addressed.

Secondary legal contact – The secondary legal contact is the individual who serves as a backup for the primary legal contact.

Work with the Instructure representative and the Internet2 Program Manager

The Instructure representative and the Internet2 Program Manager will work with you to prepare a Pricing Proposal.

Description:

A cloud-based learning management system with powerful features, the Canvas platform includes: migration tools, web services integrations, mobile access support, analytics, ePortfolio and more. The NET+ Canvas service will include additional unique features such as SAML2 federated identity and additional current or planned integrations with other NET+ services.